• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

compartment g ; ȝ; Body height: 2mm. In red: paraphs; brackets; red box around 'headings'. Three-line blue initial T on initial page; two-line blue initials; six-line initial I . Not medieval. 235 x 160 mm. Covered in grey/green leather mitred

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Body height 2 mm. Two-line blue initials with elongated red penwork flourishing, c. 25 lines on ff. 1v, 2r, 8v, 21v, 23v, and 31v. Not medieval. Twentieth century? Size: 270 x 185 mm with blue leather on pasteboard. 'Legenda Sanctorum

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

of each line tinted red. Red paraphs. Three-line red or blue lombards for divisions in text. Some words/lines in red. F. 116v - 'AMEN' on a separate line in blue lombards with red infill and surrounded by a pattern of

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Body height: 2mm. F. 1r: three-line blue initial with red penwork flourishing. Other folios: three-line blue initials with red penwork extending into margins. One-line blue or red Lombardic initials. Latin underlining in red. Blue and red paraphs. Heraldic shields: f.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

red and blue with infill of leaves and vine and red and blue penwork flourishing extending into the margin begins the text. Initials with red and blue penwork. Latin quotations boxed in red. Item 2: Twelve-line red and blue initial

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

through in red with red curls at the end; first letter of each line. Two-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing extending into border. Four-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing into left margin. Nota bene/index signs: ff. 38v, 82v,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Bunt notes that the hand is a 'bold textura of the late r 14th century' (1985, p. 3). Two-line blue or blue and green initials with red penwork mark new sections of the poem. Not contemporary. Rebound in 1969. Letter

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

writing in an Anglicana hand. Scribe ?4, ff. 176r-178v. Two-line Lombardic capitals in blue with red penwork decoration to indicate the beginning of texts. Red and blue paraphs and red boxed rubrics (e.g., f. 18). Catchwords are often boxed and

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Formata hand. Item 1: 'Cha mpe initials (gold on blue and purple with white tracery) ff. 1, 4, 93v, 126v, 128, 141' (Mynors and Thomson 1993, p. 69). Item 2: blue initials with red penwork flourishing. Late nineteenth-century binding. Parchment

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

each line infilled with red. F. 1r: Large blue initial S of 'Stimulus' with elongated red penwork topped with a crown, outlined in blue and infilled with red. Two-line initials in blue with red flourished penwork - ff. 3v, 4r,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

ff. 13r-20v: three-line blue initials with red penwork flourishing along margin (first letter of each Psalm). One-line red and blue Lombardic capitals. Red underlining. Text 3, ff. 21r-25v: three-line blue initial with red penwork begins text. Two-line blue initials with

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

two/three-line blue Lombardic initials with red penwork with red penwork infill. Frequent alternate red and blue paraphs. First initial of text: five-line Lombardic initial A with serrated pattern of blue and red with red penwork infill and red and blue

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

initials to start paragraphs, red paraphs, some initials tinted red. F. 100r - two-line blue initials, red Latin phrases, red rubric; f. 100v - six-line blue initial with rudimentary red penwork; f. 107v, 111r - six-line red initial þ ;

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

eleven-line blue initial I with red penwork flourishing in left margin and along top creating a two-sided border. Three-line blue initials with red pen work flourishing for other textual divisions (see Benson and Blanchfield 1997, p. 68, pl. 8). Blue

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

yogh; 2-shaped r . Body height: 2mm. Each item started by a two/three-line gold initial on a quartered rose and blue ground with white filigree infill with a spray growing from ascenders and descenders of black lines and carrying a

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

position. Body height 1.5-2mm. Eleven-line blue initial I with red penwork extending along left and top margin begins first text. Other texts begin with three-line initials with fine red penwork e.g. f. 9r. Two-line blue initials with red penwork throughout.

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

Elaborate five-line lombardic capital (f. 1r) in red, blue and gold with border running over the left side of the text and around 3/4 of the writing frame. Initials of passus in blue with pen ink flourishing in red. Rubrics,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

England Oxford Bodleian Library Laud Misc. 601 SC 1491 s. xiv ex English Scribal Dialect: South East Gloucestershire. Linguistic Atlas Grid Reference: 393 198, LP 6980 (McIntosh, Samuels and Benskin 1986, p. 196). A late fourteenth-century, c. 1374-1400,

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

initial F . It is blue with a pattern of red triangles on the left leg and infilled with red leaves with a green background. Three-line initials in blue with crude brown (oxidised) and blue penwork. Place names underlined in

• Manuscripts of the West Midlands

120 mm. Covered in red leather and fabric mitred and pasted onto pasteboard. Inside cover 'marbled' paper in red and blue. Four raised bands across the spine. Shield with supporting angels and scroll at bottom -'VIRTUTE ET FIDE' on front